| i may have posted this at some time in the past, as i have asked it | elsewhere and gotten different responses. i'm interested in that the | folx here think about it though, so here it is... I think you should read Marcus Ranum's OTP faq, on www.iwi.com:/pubs/ | i want a source of data for use as a otp. i don't want to have to | hook up any external devices to my pc to do it. (although some of the | methods mentioned in the past few days are quite interesting.) Can't be done. If you use a cipher to generate the pad, you have less than full, honest to nature entropy, and you might as well use PGP. Badly generated, or reused OTPs are very poor ciphers. | i'd like to know if there was a reason not to use the output of pgp | to do it. i've been playing with the following method. i take a file Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume